Vasil Tupurkovski

Vasil Tupurkovski (8 April 1951-) was Deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia from 1998 to 2000 and the founder of the Democratic Alternative of Macedonia.

Biography
Vasil Tupurkovski was born in Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia in 1951, and he graduated from law school in 1972. In 1983, he became a law professor, and he became a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Macedonia. In 1998, he founded the centrist Democratic Alternative of Macedonia, and he served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000 under President Ljubco Georgievski. In 2009, he was sentenced to three years in jail for embezzlement, but his conviction was overturned later that same year.